Top 20 Payments Angel Investors in Italy (July 2026)

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• Fence — At Fence, we're transforming the way debt facilities are managed. We are the Operating System for your debt facility, reducing the amount of resources spent in back-office operations and letting teams focus on what matters.Our platform, built on blockchain technology, offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that simplifies andautomate debt facility operations. Whether you're a capital provider or an asset originator, Fence leads you toward a smarter financial future.For capital providers, our platform enables internet-native debt solutions and real-time portfolio insights, enhancing your credit investment monitoring. With Fence, you stay ahead, making informed decisions for success. Asset originators benefit from enhanced capital efficiency and reduced operational costs, thanks to Fence's automation. We seamlessly integrate debt facilities into your tech stack and provide on-demand programmable debt, giving you unprecedented control over the capital you borrow.
• qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
• ReportAId — ReportAId is an AI-powered software that breathes life into medical reports to make healthcare more organized, customized, and accessible.

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• Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
• Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
• Young Platform — Il crypto exchange italiano dove puoi acquistare e vendere Bitcoin e le migliori altcoin del mercato. Accumula criptovalute e costruisci il tuo futuro finanziario giorno dopo giorno.

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• qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
• Omnea — The all-in-one procurement platform. Request purchases, automate approvals, and streamline your procurement process in one centralised solution.
• Dimension — The state of the art collaboration platform for modern engineering teams. Chat, project management, smart actions, and more, accelerated by AI.

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• Predicate — Predicate network simplifies transaction prerequisites.
• Valhalla — Valhalla is a decentralized exchange platform provider that allows users to trade cryptocurrencies directly from their wallets without relying on intermediaries.
• Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.

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• Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a permissionless DeFi lending platform where users can lend and borrow crypto across chains, access loans, and manage digital assets in one unified liquidity protocol.
• Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
• Edgen — A multi-chain, modular and open-source protocol providing the tools for developers to create the next generation of social apps.

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• Toket — Toket provides user-friendly APIs & no-code tools that empowers teams with no blockchain experience to easily create NFT-based applications
• Kibo Finance — Kibo Finance provides borderless options trading with fair pricing and better rewards.
• Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a permissionless DeFi lending platform where users can lend and borrow crypto across chains, access loans, and manage digital assets in one unified liquidity protocol.

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• Lifeed — Lifeed (powered by Life Based Value) is a digital learning platform that unlocks life’s learning potential, transforming employees’ life transitions into professional growth. Companies that adopt Lifeed have access to a set of training and communications resources, a hub for sharing experiences and a dashboard with updated data on employees’experiences. By using a strength-based approach, the Life Based Learning method demonstrates how life events can be maximised to improve the corporate environment, empowering parents, caregivers and transitioners to fully engage and reveal their value within the company, reducing stress and helping them to excel in their careers.Since launching in 2015, Life Based Value has worked with over 80 firms and is being piloted in 23 countries and 218 cities across the USA, Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia. Over 20,000 people have participated and the results indicate that the program can improve soft skills by up to 35%.
• Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
• Linko Inc. — Linko Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California and has the main development studio in Berlin, Germany. Linko Inc. was founded by veteran entrepreneurs Mikko Alasaarela and Vesa Per

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• GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
• Algor Education — Algor Lab is a company that provides tools and materials needed for teaching through artificial intelligence.
• Algor — La migliore app per le mappe concettuali

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• GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.

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• GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
• Prestiamoci — Prestiamoci is the first community of loans between individuals born in Italy, allowing you to make profitable investment and to obtain loans with installments transparent.With Prestiamoci the providers invest and get Claimants, returning to its original role of the bank safe. Loans shall be paid by people to trustworthy people who want toachieve their life projects, grow their professional activity, better manage expenses and major purchases

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• GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
• Soource — Soource is a B2B Saas product that uses AI applications to help purchasing managers to discover the best market solutions through extensive global research and automated email negotiations with thousands of suppliers worldwide.
• Buzzoole — Buzzoole is an influencer marketing platform. It allows brands to integrate key influencers into their digital and social communications in a fully automated, transparent, and ROI-driven approach. Our technology analyses the online conversations of all registered users across each of their social media channels. Through a semantic model, Buzzooleis able to categorize conversations and to identify the topics that users are most influential in, according to its own algorithm. This allows brands to reach out to specific influencers in their niche market in a completely automated way.Buzzoole's business model is a CPP mode. Brands pay on the basis of posts generated by the influencers. This Cost-Per-Post model allows us to offer all sizes of solutions. From startups to top brands. Working with Buzzoole can save companies up to 70% compared with cooperating with external agencies, which is usually a lengthier, more complicated, and more expensive process.Buzzoole's proprietary algorithm solves the analysis and matching problem, and the transparent approach to campaigns means brands will always see how much they are spending, who is working on their campaign, and what their campaign ROI is.

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• Ciridae — Ciridae provides AI consulting and product development services that help enterprises incorporate machine learning into core operations. The company advises executive teams on AI strategy, use‑case selection, and organizational readiness, then translates those plans into technical roadmaps. Engagements often include evaluating data assets, choosingmodel architectures, and defining integration patterns with existing software systems. Ciridae also offers hands‑on engineering support, such as building prototypes, productionizing models, and setting up experimentation workflows. The firm focuses on practical applications like process automation, decision support, and predictive analytics that align with measurable business outcomes. Ciridae’s approach emphasizes collaboration with internal teams so that knowledge transfer, governance practices, and long‑term maintainability are built into AI initiatives from the start.
• TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.
• XO Market — XO Market is a decentralized finance platform that enables users to create, trade, and share prediction-based markets on future events using blockchain technology. The platform operates as a non-custodial interface, allowing participants to interact directly with smart contracts while retaining control of their own crypto assets. XO Marketfacilitates “conviction markets,” where users can establish and trade outcomes on various topics, with prices reflecting collective market sentiment. It uses an automated market maker model to provide liquidity and incorporates a hybrid system combining artificial intelligence and human input to resolve market outcomes. The platform supports permissionless market creation, enabling users to define events, set parameters, and participate in trading without centralized oversight.

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• Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
• eezylife Inc. — A proactive life navigator dedicated to maximizing your life by bringing you personalized solutions based on your character, mood and preferences – enjoy more and share your experiences!

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• BKN301 — Scopri tutti i servizi dedicati a privati, aziende ed esercenti. Accedi all'area riservata.
• qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
• Ventis — Acquista online abbigliamento per uomo, donna e bambino, arredamento, beauty e gourmet su Ventis. Approfitta delle offerte con la garanzia di pagamenti comodi e sicuri.

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• DGG — RapidCompact by DGG is the leading solution to make 3D content fit all target platforms, freeing up each creative team's' time by automating the creation of high-quality, optimized 3D assets for Web, mobile, AR and XR use. Customers include retailers, public institutions, tech companies, XR studios, and more.
• PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
• Restate — Restate is a lightweight runtime that lets developers build innately resilient distributed apps without the complexity tax.

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• Hodlie — Hodlie provides an AI-powered platform for automated cryptocurrency trading, risk management, and portfolio monitoring.

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• Hodlie — Hodlie provides an AI-powered platform for automated cryptocurrency trading, risk management, and portfolio monitoring.

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• Hodlie — Hodlie provides an AI-powered platform for automated cryptocurrency trading, risk management, and portfolio monitoring.

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• FreshPay — FreshPay is a U.S.-based company that operates a payment processing platform for digital currencies. The company was fpunded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.
• Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.

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• SardexPay — SardexPay provides a commercial credit system designed for professionals and companies. It enables companies, freelancers, and associations to exchange goods and services on an online platform via a complementary currency. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Serramanna, Sardinia.